I have used Puppy for a while and have been working on a (VMware) virtual machine based Puppy called VirtuePup and wanted to ask some questions about it.

1. How big should the virtual hard drive be? I've been using a 2gb one with 512 swap, but i think it might be good to slim it down a bit for the final release.

2. Can i get hosting for it? I have a website i can use, but it has barely any bandwidth so a mirror would be nice.
EDIT: i got a mirror now so i should be fine
3. Anything to look out for when building a Puppy?

4. Is it legal to make a CD that has the VM image and a copy of VMware Player?

Thanks, a beta should be out in a day or two.Last edited by zer on Sun 04 Mar 2007, 11:56; edited 1 time in total

Thanks, I am almost done with it.
I think for hard drives i will do two downloads: one with the hard drive file and one with the pup_save.2fs file so people can get empty hdd files from EasyVMX and put the pup_save file in.
For some reason, IceWM and XFCE seem to hate it right now so i will go with FWM until i get Ice working.
I nearly forgot about VM tools, thanks for reminding me.

With the nearly vanilla 2.6.18.x kernels, I was wondering if anybody more experienced than myself would consider using a xen kernel built to Barry's specs. I thought that perhaps the way squash and such act like loopbacks that this would interfere with the way xen seems to execute virtual machines--but if vm(ware)puppy is possible...maybe xen-puppy is possible. I have 3 debian sarges and a ttylinux running in loopbacks (all commandline) and scowered the forum for "xen" to little avail. This is the closest thread I've found.

This vmware idea is still cool, however. I am definitely glad to see virtualization finding it's way into smaller distros. I will brush up on vmware offerings as compared to xen and maybe have some sort of go.

QEMU-Puppy is an OS and a set of applications meant for a USB flash drive. This OS can be booted natively or on top of another, already installed, OS (currently Windows and Linux). Just borrow a PC, boot your own environment, and return the PC unaffected.

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